In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

This article is authored by Kushal Vijay, AI software engineer, Microsoft.

From Narendra Modi to Pakistan's generals, Donald Trump has turned unpredictability into a diplomatic doctrine, keeping ...

This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that's delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. Last week I explained how a then 25-year-old ...

SINGAPORE – Some homes in Singapore may not give their residents the best refuge from the heat. A research group led by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) found that nearly half ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended President Donald Trump’s decision to cast a vote by mail despite repeatedly calling the process “rigged.” Trump voted by mail in Tuesday’s special election ...

is a stipendiary lecturer in mathematics at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. She did her DPhil at the University of Oxford. It is a hot July day in London and I take the bus to Bloomsbury. I ...

Claude Code gives an LLM a shell and dev tools so it can write and run code. Bourbaki does the same thing for math: it gives an LLM a computer algebra system (SymPy), a proof assistant (Lean 4), and ...

More than 20 percent of Americans express little or no confidence in scientists to “act in the best interests of the public,” according to Pew’s latest polling. Just 13 percent gave that answer in ...

Bizarre misunderstandings happen everywhere, not just in the office. Sometimes you have to laugh when things make sense again. See how this hotel clerk figured out what confused a customer. This just ...

GPT-4o: Correct syntax, wrong logic Claude 3.5: High confidence, low accuracy Gemini 2.0: Plausible but incorrect reasoning LLaMA 3.1: Hallucinated "proofs" Root Cause: LLMs excel at pattern matching, ...